Anjelica Huston Professions : Actress Born : July 8, 1951 Browse All Authors Top 62 quotes by Anjelica Huston Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt. Anjelica Huston grain-of-salt age america Of course drugs were fun. Anjelica Huston courses drug fun I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas. Anjelica Huston cancer ocean beach One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting. Anjelica Huston acting wonderful drama Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy. Anjelica Huston lunacy kind happens At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth. Anjelica Huston shapes mouths looks People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much. Anjelica Huston bored acting people The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way. Anjelica Huston daughter men ideas I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot. Anjelica Huston awareness people thinking I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor. Anjelica Huston slapstick bigs humor Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money. Anjelica Huston parent pay way An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second. Anjelica Huston minutes actors past I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved. Anjelica Huston hate baby thinking I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books. Anjelica Huston watches book television I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take. Anjelica Huston niece car people I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off. Anjelica Huston bears needs thinking It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time. Anjelica Huston weather beautiful country I don't think people have ever cast me for anything too traditional or midwestern or housewifey. Anjelica Huston casts people thinking I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with. Anjelica Huston niece two kids Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns; they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name. Anjelica Huston stupid names funny Similar Authors Beatrice Lillie actress Adepero Oduye actress Adrienne Barbeau actress Bindu actress Alexandra Breckenridge actress Bojana Novakovic actress All Authors
